From: Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] On old languages (COBOL)
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:47:24 -0500
Date: 2002-06-11T11:47:24-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D06299C.B30697A6@despammed.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3d05aa8e_1@news.tm.net.my
Adrian Hoe wrote:
> One of the reason COBOL still around is that its syntax is easily
> understood by managers. Not C/C++.
One wag wrote:
COBOL was conceived to allow managers to read programs.
COBOL was implemented to prove that managers won't read programs.
--
Wes Groleau
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-11 16:47 UTC|newest]
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2002-06-06 15:41 [OT] On old languages (COBOL) Preben Randhol
2002-06-11 8:30 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-06-11 12:49 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-11 16:47 ` Wes Groleau [this message]
2002-06-11 19:34 ` Caffeine Junky
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